Sentences with phrase «including public worker unions»

Cuomo has said in his campaign that he would take on special interests including public worker unions to cap local property taxes and reduce state spending and other measures that the labor - backed Working Families Party has fought since 1998.

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But Prime Minister Callaghan then urged that the government make further concessions to the unions, including «exemptions from the 5 per cent pay limit, tighter price controls and extension of the principle of «comparability,» under which public sector workers could expect more money.

During an interview with WCBS 880 AM Radio, Paterson stressed that he has not yet included his plan to furlough public employees one day a week in emergency budget extenders, which would essentially force legislators to choose between infuriating state worker unions and a government shutdown.

Commenting on reports of the announcements the Prime Minister will make at a Downing Street Summit today about action proposed to be taken against certain public service workers, including teachers, who fail to report sexual abuse of children and young people, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK said: «No one can fail but to be shocked by the horrific abuse of young girls revealed by recent investigations, including the Report today on Oxfordshire.

(Albany, NY)-- One day after being appointed Ranking Democratic Member of the New York State Senate Elections Committee, Senator Brian Kavanagh today joined with fellow legislators and advocates — including the Brennan Center for Justice, Citizen Action of New York, Citizens Union, Common Cause / NY, the League of Women Voters of New York State, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG), Planned Parenthood, and Transportation Workers United Local 100 and colleagues in the Senate to urge Governor Andrew Cuomo to fully fund early voting in the Fiscal 2018 - 2019 Executive Budget.

Other top lobbying spenders have consistently been on the list in recent years, including health care interests, the trial lawyers, and public worker unions.

Gov. Cuomo, backed by labor leaders including UFT President Michael Mulgrew (center), signs legislation at UFT headquarters to reduce the number of services that New York's public sector unions are obligated to provide to workers who do not pay to support those services.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

-- Includes language to pre-emptively respond to a looming Supreme Court decision that most observers expect will weaken public employee unions by letting state workers decline to pay dues even if they benefit from the union's efforts.

The unions are also highlighting the serious workplace and social problems that will accompany the enforced longer working age for public sector workers, particularly those with strenuous or demanding jobs like construction workers, cleaners, nurses, paramedics and teachers, including an increasingly frail workforce and the exclusion of younger workers from the labour market.

This, the 12 labour unions and the public sector workers have kicked against the new system citing various reasons, including claims that workers will pay double charges should they get their salaries through the e-zwich platform.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo had proposed an optional defined contribution plan in the Tier Six proposal, but it was altered to only narrowly included non-unionized workers after unions like CSEA and the Public Employees Federation decried the provision.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

While he's always kept close ties to private - sector unions, the governor is much tougher on public employee unions, including those that represent teachers and state workers.

Fights over to what extent the county is responsible for paying the full cost of employees» health care have sprung up recently after heated negotiations between the Astorino administration and the Civil Service Employees Association, CSEA — a union representing the county's public sector workers — failed to produce a compromise, including a contract offer that the union rejected earlier this month.

The party, in a written statement, is backing Cuomo's platform in which he promises to cut state spending, including aid that goes to the unions representing teachers and other public workers closely associated with the party.

Republican Sen. Bill Larkin on Friday announced he had received the backing of five labor organizations in the state, including the two largest public workers employee unions.

The lineup of groups opposing a constitutional convention includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

Cuomo not only avoided the multimillion - dollar waves of TV ads by public employee unions and hospitals that sunk the last three governors, but he had special interests running ads praising him, after he promised concessions including a «living wage» guarantee for health care union workers and a cap on medical malpractice awards.

The coalition, which includes advocates for the poor, public worker and teacher unions, and those who help the elderly, use words like «horrendous» and «devastating» to describe the effects of Cuomo's proposed cuts.

The lineup of opposition groups includes: environmental groups, gay rights organizations, New York City cops, Western New York auto industry workers, the state chapter of the National Rifle Association, every imaginable public and private - sector union, political leaders on the left and right and even a group called «Humanists of Long Island.»

(a) Implement fundamental curbs on the rights of public sector unions, including: Grant all public sector workers the right to opt - out of union membership and payment of any union dues including agency fees.

The Madison teachers union is cited for its role in helping organize last spring's massive protests at the state Capitol in response to Walker's efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for most public workers, as well as other legislation including strict voter ID requirements that are likely to limit voting by college students, the elderly, the poor and immigrants.

Our union value can also be witnessed in our proud representation of more than 15,000 professionals in public and private health care settings, including but not limited to school nurses, hospital and community nurses, physical therapists and occupational therapists, guidance and school counselors, social workers and speech and language pathologists.

The coalition includes: 215 People's Alliance, AFSCME DC 47, AFSCME 1199C, AFT Local 2026, Alliance for Philadelphia Public Schools, Caucus of Working Educators, Media Mobilizing Project, Neighborhood Networks, Parents United for Public Education, PASNAP, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, Philadelphia NAACP, Philly Student Union, POWER, Reclaim Philadelphia, SEIU 32BJ, Taxi Workers Alliance, Teacher Action Group, UNITE HERE Local 634 and UrbEd.

Participants will include: All in the Red, Art Production Coop, Arts & Labor, The Base, Beyond Childcare Coop, Books Thru Bars NYC, Claiborne McDonald, Center for Urban Pedagogy, Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now, Fair Pay Music, Fixers Collective NYC, Flatbush Mutual Aid, Flux Factory, Fractured Atlas, Free Cooper Union, freeDimensional, Hibridos Collective, The Illuminator, Intern Labor Rights, I Ran into Iran, Lanchonete, Making Worlds, Mayfirst / PeopleLink, MetaLocal, Mexicali Rose, Mutual Aid NYC, Neter, NYC Anti-Eviction Network, Nsumi Collective, OurGoods, OWS Screen Printers Guild, Paper Tiger Television, The Pedagogy Group, The Public School, Radix Media, REV -, Tech - Ops, TimeBanksNYC, Times Up, Trade School, Trust Art, US Federation of Worker Cooperatives, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, W.A.G.E., and more.

Injured workers and advocates work closely on law reform, education and public rallies with labour organizations and their worker representatives: including regional labour and district councils, Unifor, the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), United Steelworks of Canada (USW), United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario Nurses Associationworkers and advocates work closely on law reform, education and public rallies with labour organizations and their worker representatives: including regional labour and district councils, Unifor, the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), United Steelworks of Canada (USW), United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario Nurses Association public rallies with labour organizations and their worker representatives: including regional labour and district councils, Unifor, the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), United Steelworks of Canada (USW), United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario Nurses AssociationWorkers (UFCW), Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario Nurses Association Public Employees (CUPE), Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario Nurses Association Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), Ontario Nurses Association (ONA).